I am very pleased with what I was able to get out of my WIZARDS reset (above). I miss Guin being classed and she is kissing my axe for me to do her up again…
“It’s just not going to happen Doll”, I say to her.
She responds with “But why baby why?”
I respond: “It just doesn’t MATTER, It just DOESN’T MATTER, IT JUST DOESN’T MATTER”
I had to work this BM scene into this because its been a mantra as of late (and its a classic)
ONTO MY ROGUES…
I went with distribution as follows: Boots(8), Inari(6) and Marjana(6).
What? You noticed that Marjana isn’t classed at 6? Yeah #*@&$ its because I reset her as I really like the Effect Boots gives. I could pull my hair out on it honestly. She (Marjana has been de-classed more times than I would like to say). So, yeah I thought it threw and then I changed my mind in the direction I wanted to go…
Some would call this not thinking it through. I would have to bite my tongue on it and determine if it would be a good idea to use my mouth to talk or not (well, more like my fingers to type in this case).
So after that snafu of sorts I reached out to a friend to discuss my desires to put together a MEAN MINION MADNESS TEAM. It was a brief exchange however left feeling I got it, its not ideal yet it will work. Then I spent time really looking at it because it would require resets. It became clear however it was NOT going to be what we discussed it had too many conflicting issues imo.
Then I went back to my original BEST POSSIBLE “Telluria” team goal that I had originally pieced together with my bench at the time. I felt good for a moment as it wasn’t viable to bring in JF based on what I had done with the WIZARDS above and my opinion is that Boots can be a substitute for GM (even ZIM though you do not see her there as used replacement). Reds with a Rainbow Telly Team are basically GM or JF as the alternate (Boots is showing up more). Then I remembered man I really wasn’t happy having Rana in the mix…
Ahhhh yeah even knowing that I classed up RANA pretty high (she got reset). Now is where I’m going to Lose a lot of you because I went into the following (nabbed it - its just a cut/paste - not going back over in detail…
THE FOLLOWING/BELOW IS A CUT/PASTE of working through things in writing to myself:
ABOVE is the team I had briefed on and determined could be a go (and Rigard would need to be fully classed)…
Hmmmm… Not a team I can see being viable vs any of say 6 or so regular Telly teams I face
3 AOE Attack up 45, 48, 30 that will over-ride each other
4 heroes that do ZERO direct damage from special (minions I realize do damage, just no idea what this synergy could bring, to test)
S,F,A,A,A not something I think I would want to run
All healing is over time, no defense down (minion killing though…)
I’m going to run Noor a bit at 3/70 see what she’s like though… can she be what I think?
THE COMMON TELLURIA TEAMS (from my own eyes in raids and wars)
- Seshat/Gravemaker/Telluria/Vela/Drake
- Finley/Gravemaker/Telluria/Vela/Drake
- Seshat/Gravemaker/Telluria/Vela/Jabberwock
- Seshat/Gravemaker/Telluria/Vela/Ursena
- White Rabbit/Gravemaker/Telluria/Vela/Jabberwock (see Jab/Rabbit flip wings a lot with this team)
- Finley/Jean Francis/Telluria/Vela/Jabberwock
- Seshat/Gravemaker/Telluria/Vela/Costumed Joon
- Seshat/Jean Francis/Telluria/Vela/Neith
There are a couple more mixes of the above to round out 10 teams that are more common I think move on
OTHER HEROES VIABLE AND IN USE (separated into tiers)
Alice (semi-often)
Puss in Boots (semi-often)
Freya (semi-often)
Costumed Magni (seeing more)
Costumed Sartana (seeing more)
Sif (seeing more)
Killhare (seeing more)
Gazelle (rare)
Queen of Hearts (rare)
Alfrike - RARE HERO will start seeing more and she will move up the ladder
Alasie (exceedingly rare)
Costumed Isarnia (exceedingly rare)
Captain Krestel (exceedingly rare)
Skadi - I suspect will start showing up as a replacement ICE and move up
Baldur - RARE HERO will start seeing more and he will move up the ladder
Not looking forward to Him paired with Heimdall
MY STATUS
BEST POSSIBLE WAR DEFENSE IF RESETS AND RECLASSING WERE NO ISSUE AT ALL
Seshat/BK or Mitz/Telluria/Vela/Joon (F/A/A/F/F)
VELA
To put Vela(6) on my D it would require resetting Alasie(18) and Zim(18)
Their combined value outside of WAR/RAID D is much more I believe than Vela
Alasie is strongly proven and Zim really is. Zim is only possible potential for what I would consider as a replacement red for GM (JF, Boots)
DRUID issue though so its either ZIM or VELA. We know which pairs better with Telluria.
I get use Vela(6) 50-60% of time in war
SESHAT & Dapper Dan Rigard Maxed
Rigard competes with Seshat for Emblems not near as bad as 2 Legends due to cost variance period. I have 3 Costumed Rigards 14, 11, 11 (would need to reset an 11 to move the 14 up) - I do not use 3 Rigards much anymore so that’s acceptable
Seshat is only classed 1 however and Rigard may need some of the Blems to go Fully classed.
Alasie has to be reset to even consider it then comes the point who will be my ICE HERO?
It would have to be ARIEL cost wise otherwise back to VELA and resetting ZIM (Alice is out being Boots is my hero of interest as he is a full package hero - I have to reconsider after taking time on this)
JF
I have Jean-Francois but just stripped Guin and doled out as: Hel(6), Hel(6), Zeline(7), Sartana(7)
Hes not worth them all being stripped IMO (he is a ‘replacement’ for GM and will become so for Boots I think. Have to Forget him.
ALICE
Alice isn’t all that (however would have to be my BLUE and I’d have to give up on Boots)… she is used more often then Alasie though from what I’ve experienced.
Alasie is the most PROVEN Ice hero in the game outside Vela (and Finely) - but she doesn’t have the Mitz weakness to their degrees, she only gets dinged for a HIT not 1-5 in the reflect
Anzough?
is coming up in use a bit still not all that imo when were talking about all that up there!
I would take Zim all day over Anzough and If left with you can have 1 JF or 1 ZIM - I’d take Zim she is proven not so much as Alasie in terms of tenure, however her USE value is better as well morre dependable that JF’s.
MY REDS
MY REDS: BK(19), Mitz(19), Zim(18) - Mitz is a must keep more so than Zim with the current Telly D’s BK hasn’t PROVEN to be a MITZ or ZIM to me yet he is cls 19 though can’t reset that
Boots(8) MOVING HIM UP ISSUE
I would have to strip likely both as they are 65/50 nodes only level costs (no 125’s) Marjana(6) and Inari(6)
WHAT THIS REVIEW IS SHOWING TELLING ME
So what I’m seeing here is I can’t compete based on “hero Inventory” at the TOP TOP-TIER, and if I settle with a team that sounded good in a brief discussion -or-
with the BEST I CAN DO WAR/RAID D based on exp/knowledge currently (using ‘replacement heroes’)
I would take a noticeable DIVE in war average for a fact. I would become less useful as a team player.
WHY: There is ZERO plausible argument with what I have to do it…
I’ve done more than my fair share of testing in this game, that’s over (lost too much especially in Emblems with resets to do so)
CONCLUSION
My E&P HEIGHT has been reached in part by my own actions and what RNG has given me. I can still do decent in war and raid good. Need to just be happy with that. I will have some good and poor ones ahead like most of us even with the TOP TOP teams.
It’s the community for me, the building, the creating and the helping that kept me here this long. Can still travel around help players out that are more fortunate in bench makeup or pairing ‘in the moment’ for a bit.
So I GUESS MY CONCLUSION wasn’t concluded…
LOL. cRAZy right?
Because I continued on talk writting...
I have Telluria, Boots, 2 Seshats… the new Noor. Then slow Santa, Mother North & Lowly Thoth - I am just not going to have a MINION MADNESS TEAM to run vs Telly War and Raid Ds, without really really getting into it to find out (Don’t do it man IT JUST DOESN’T MATTER)…
My personal thoughts are: Boots, Noor, Seshat, Santa (reset Joon who’s my Holy other than Inari she was already stripped following my testing of her Mits/Kage with the Sakura family bonus which totally is worthless to the Challenge and seasonal Events and S3) and she was poor in my WAR D. Joon outperformed her. The AI is tiling for the 2 not me so had to eat the fact and take her out (others have diff exp and likely diff War Team allies for her).
Once again lol. So, Santa is out and not the ‘best’ option anyway being SLOW being Noor is also SLOW. SPEED still talks volumes and to have 2 of the same element to be Slow on your team - Big NO its basically a suicide setup and then Boots is Average. NOPE!
Seshat, Noor, Thoth, Boots, Sesaht is the only one I see viable considering “SPEED” only and having 3 heroes that do damage outside the minions (F/S/F/A/F can be worked with). Consensus is 'you can’t have more than 3 minion makers on a team), whatever lol (I don’t accept that as any kind of fact, prob a good guideline if you can’t afford the testing and resetting and reclassing to find out). The SS would never cut it in this meta together though imo. Thoth worthless there, Seshat is amazing given, a dual debuff potential is nice, no cleanser, no defense down, everything 100% relying on Boots to Heal, Attack Up, Add more minions into the mix as well do so early (so need the Avg fire before the 3 fast darks). Boots is the only truly ‘decorated’ prospect for the TEAM overall - Santa would have been as well just to viable to give up my Joon. And Noor though I have a hunch and have seen some things of interest isn’t worth the cost and risk.
Yeah think I’m done thinking on this stuff. Wait…
A Telly, Mother, Boots, Noor, Seshat would be much better for a ‘team’ I think. A/S/A/S/F a little, specials would work together a little better. So will try this out without making any emblem mods or commits.
SO WHAT WAS THE POINT OF ALL OF THIS and providing it here in the forum?
HECK, I guess to say if your having a problem figuring things out and deciding on what to do, SO AM I. Ha ha ha ha. In the end really IT JUST DOESN’T MATTER! Just have fun.
LOL RaZoR